Stitches stretching out when knitting Continental

[nstssj]

This question was inspired by PlayboyMommy, actually, who was asking why her stitches would get longer and more spaced out as she knitted along. It turned out that was a matter of changing her cast-on to long-tail.

The thing is, I do cast on with long tail and my stitches continue to do this stretching, increasing space between stitches thing. I do get the right number of stitches, but somehow when I'm knitting continental, it just stretches and spaces. I don't know what the hell I'm doing wrong

[suzeeq]

I can't think why. Do you have a picture? Might be easier to figure out if we could see what you do.

[Ginnyb]

Are they different when you are just doing all knit stitches, or when you are doing knit and purl? I had that problem when I did stockinette because doing my purls used so much more yarn, I knit continental also.

Ginny

[nstssj]

Actually, it seems to be only when I knit continental. I will post a picture as soon as I figure out how to transfer photos from my digital camera to the computer...